quote:I just said SC is not the only program in a major metro area, and it's false to state they are.

It isn't just any major metro brah.

I didn't say they were in a major metro.

I said, they're in the "everyone wants to be a mover and star" ENTERTAINMENT CAPITAL of the America.

USC is in Los Angeles...

LOS ANGELES!!!!! Big Lights.

...and they're the big time program with the big time athletes in Los Angeles - which ain't like no place else...and it certainly isn't Baton Rouge or Norman cow pasture Okie. Nobody else has it like USC when it comes to potential trouble.

About 800k. About 3 million less people than L.A. And Detroit has about 700k. Notre Dame isnt in Chicago. Michigan isn't in Detroit. But point isn't just the size of the city, and I think you know this. Houston, Detroit, D.C.; these cities aren't major entertainment capitals that attract wannabe sports agents and other scum bags the way Los Angeles does. The only comparable city is New York. I'm not saying USC should get a pass because of this, but it should be taken into account.

quote:Man some of you guys are really blinded by hate for USC. This guy Scott Schenter, the supplier or illegal benefits, is Washington Huskies fan. There are emails from him saying he hopes USC gets in trouble for this:

Makes absolutely no difference in the world. The REAL story lies in the fact USC has never wanted to keep a tight leash on its' athletic operations. It is a culture - Wait, where have we heard that recently - Maybe Happy Valley?

Please keep comparing pedophiles to a school where it's former AD turned a blind eye to its athletes getting preyed on by people outside the university trying to make a buck.

I still am not sure to what extent the NCAA will come down on USC now for this one. They already got them to an extreme for what went down under MG, and this just serves as further justification for the draconian sanctions. If this was a year or two ago, then we have a bigger story. IMO

For football- If true, Haden will likely vacate wins from when JM was deemed ineligiible, dissociate SC from Joe, and add one year to the probation. No bowl ban or schollie reduction. NCAA, iMO, would take that.

quote:...and they're the big time program with the big time athletes in Los Angeles - which ain't like no place else...and it certainly isn't Baton Rouge or Norman cow pasture Okie. Nobody else has it like USC when it comes to potential trouble.

Assuming that is true, and I tend to lean more with Baloo on that stance, why should that mean USC gets more slack?

Lot of people would say considering USC's special circumstances they should have been monitoring closer than any team in the country.

Its a two part process. If you want the NCAA to lower it's expectations of compliance, then USC can't run around acting like they are in baton rouge or Norman.

quote:My prediction is along the lines of the NCAA saying, 'You've done a lot of good things since this happened, and you've already kind of answered for this type of thing, even if it wasn't with these two athletes. So let's continue to see if this is going to work in Los Angeles. USC needs to start getting credit for the fact that their degree of difficulty is probably harder than anybody else's.

And this incident allegedly happened before that. I have no clue what the NCAA will do with this but I'm not going to jump on the NCAA should punish USC less cause it's in L.A. for a violation that occurred before USC took proactive measures.

Not that the NCAA has ever given us reason to believe they operate under precedent, but I am not very concerned about this at all. The culture change the NCAA wanted all along has taken effect, the school is going above and beyond what other schools do in terms of fielding a compliance department, and McKnight's transgression predates all of that.